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Since he hung up his trademark Irish plaid hat at the U.N. last July, Moynihan has become one of the most jarring diplomats ever to inhabit the towering glass menagerie on Manhattan's East Side. A big (6 ft. 5 in.), bouncy, exuberant man with a cherubic Irish face and a floppy lock of prematurely gray hair, Moynihan, 48, has a well-developed ability to both charm and infuriate. Walking down a corridor, he can pick up a retinue with a nonstop monologue of patter, pontification and wisecracks ("If the U.N. didn't exist, it would be impossible to invent...
Ironically, the price would have to be paid by another proud tradition. The Cree Indians-and still smaller groups of Inuit Eskimos, who inhabit the vast subarctic regions of northern Quebec -numbered about 10,000. When word of the James Bay Project filtered along the trap lines and river banks, the Cree sent a delegation to Montreal to protest. They gathered in an overheated courtroom with a lawyer named O'Reilly to argue that damming the seven great rivers of their "garden" would not only cut off their livelihood but destroy their culture...
...differences among women of varying cultures were starkly revealed at the U.N. World Conference for International Women's Year in Mexico City last summer. The meeting bogged down in bickering and accomplished little. Women in much of the Arab world remain isolated and subservient; in Saudi Arabia, they still inhabit harems. But in Egypt and Lebanon, stirrings of emancipation are evident...
...costumes at all but authentic antiques. The equally real interiors arid landscapes-every foot of the film was shot on location -are intended to function as something more than exotic delights for the eye. Close scrutiny of the settings reveals not only the character of the people who inhabit them but the spirit of the entire age as Kubrick understands...
Morphos directs The Mousetrap so as to wring the maximum possible number of laughs from a fairly silly script. In the process, she necessarily subordinates the unwinding of the plot to the peculiarities of the characters who inhabit Agatha Christie's strangely isolated world...